Theres an 11 meters guy in Wisconsin near me that runs an Icom 765 he was telling his buddies 0n 11 meters that his Icom IC-765 sports a quadruple conversion receiver?? is this true is this radio really that much better than my Yaesu FT-990 base?? Or all my Yaesues and Kenwoods? Ive never heard of a quad conversion receiver
-
You can now help support WorldwideDX when you shop on Amazon at no additional cost to you! Simply follow this Shop on Amazon link first and a portion of any purchase is sent to WorldwideDX to help with site costs.
quad conversion recieve??
- Thread starter TonyV225
- Start date
They are in fact quad conversion. See page 54 of the manual for full specs.
http://www.rigpix.com/icom/ic765_manual.pdf
They actually use the same IF freq for the second and forth IF stages which is kind of odd.It is quad conversion for all modes except FM where it is triple conversion.Generally the greater the conversion the better it will be for rejecting strong out of band signals but just because it is quad conversion does not mean it is any better than a triple conversion rig especially in this case where the same IF is used twice. If there is any leakage from one of those IF stages then......
http://www.rigpix.com/icom/ic765_manual.pdf
They actually use the same IF freq for the second and forth IF stages which is kind of odd.It is quad conversion for all modes except FM where it is triple conversion.Generally the greater the conversion the better it will be for rejecting strong out of band signals but just because it is quad conversion does not mean it is any better than a triple conversion rig especially in this case where the same IF is used twice. If there is any leakage from one of those IF stages then......